Update – The Philippines Ferry Database
The Philippines Ferry Database is just two days old and is discussed in many places. We also got some feedback and the first corrections. Less than 24 hours after publishing the database, we got...
Category: Ferries & Ports
The Philippines Ferry Database – we did it!
The Philippines Ferry Database got real today. A long time dream became true. We’ve built a database with almost all ferry connections in the Philippines. In the Philippines 2016 you can by plane to...
The lost Ferries in the Philippines
In the Philippines it seems that Ferries are been lost every day. Or at least the shipping companies do not know where their Ferries are. For all travellers and especially for foreign tourists it...
Ferry Camiguin – Bohol and Bohol – Camiguin
The Ferry Camiguin – Bohol and Bohol – Camiguin is operating at least until Easter. It sails 3 times weekly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We publish this information because of the many inquiries...
Camiguin Ferries – New Schedules
Camiguin Ferries do have a simple principle – either they sail or they do not. Now it seems that the Philippine Coast Guard has intensified their supervision of the ferry operations. The result should...
Good News from Camiguin – Super Shuttle Ferry
Good News from Camiguin – the Bohol Ferry is back! After almost a year of interruption, after almost a year of many frustrations of Camiguin residents, and of travelers between Bohol and Camiguin alike, Super Shuttle Ferry...
MAYSAK/Chedeng – vanished!
The storm MAYSAK/Chedeng belongs to the past. The Doppler radars show some light to rainfalls in norther Luzon. In some parts the rainfall is although heavy. On the east coast of Luzon waves are still high...
Camiguin Tourism – New Impulses Needed – Now!
Camiguin Tourism depends completely on airlines and maritime transportation. Without them, Camiguin remains a completely hidden pearl in the southern Bohol Sea. Camiguin Tourism is going up and down like a cork in the waves....
Camiguin Ferry Accident – update
Camiguin Ferry Accident: The Super Shuttle Ferries #11 and #15 stranded during a towing on November 26. After damaging many coral blocks, the Super Shuttle Ferry 15 had been floated and towed away. Super Shuttle Ferry 11...
Super Shuttle ferries – forget them!
Tomorrow it will be a week ago that two Super Shuttle ferries stranded and half sunk on the northern shore of Camiguin. They heavily damaged the dive site of Balbagon. Today we checked the progress...
A look back on “Queenie”
“Queenie” caused some troubles in the Philippines. Why? PAGASA had announced a TD (Tropical Depression), JTWC and JMA wrote about an LPA (Low Pressure Area). What went wrong? When “Queenie” entered PAR (Philippines Area...
Ferry Accident – the Pictures
Ferry Accident: Sorry for the late update. Last night, this morning and this afternoon we had no power in parts of Camiguin. Here they are, the pictures of Super Shuttle Ferries 11 and 15 off...
Ferries sunk – confirmed!
Ferries sunk: We got a confirmation from a reliable person with an update of what had happened. Now it’s too dark. We’ll dispatch a photographer tomorrow morning. We just received an image from Christopher Rodriguez:...
Ferries sunk?
Ferries sunk? All our communication channels are going mad. A first message informed us that a boat sunk between Benoni (Camiguin) and Balingoan (Mindanao). Our inquiries first showed up with Super Shuttle Ferry #15...
Weather update from Balingoan
We just got a Weather update from Balingoan. Our friend Vincenzo (aka. Kalen) is supervising the work on his newest project, La Vela Pizzeria in the port of Balingoan. He informs us that currently no boat is leaving...
Pasig River Ferry Operating Hours extended
Pasig River Ferry Operating Hours are extended starting December 1, 2014. Manila’s waterway will get more busy. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) today announced the extended operating hours of the Pasig River ferry system...
UFN – how I hate it!
UFN – Until Further Notice is an expression you read in all schedules and announcements in Philippines’ transportation. UFN correctly translated means: YOU CANNOT RELY ON US ! If you read the schedules of...
Oceanjet resumes service to Camiguin
Oceanjet resumes service to Camiguin from tomorrow, October 22, 2014. They will again ply the route Cagayan de Oro – Benoni – Jagna in the morning and vise-versa in the afternoon. 8:00 AM...
MATMO / Henry upgraded
Tropical Storm MATMO/Henry has again gotten stronger and has been upgraded. Depending on the sources it is now a Severe Tropical Storm (JMA) or even a Typhoon Category 1 (GDACS). Instead of turning north...
M/V Catherine – sailing couple in Sulu
On May 3, we informed you about the mysterious disappearance of the two Germans sailing with their boat, the M/V Catherine, between Palawan and the Sulu islands. Yesterday military officials informed they have verified that the...
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